Classification and Learning Using Genetic Algorithms - Applications in Bioinformatics and Web Intelligence. Natural Computing Series. (Electronic book text)

This book provides a unified framework that describes how genetic learning can be used to design pattern recognition and learning systems. It examines how a search technique, the genetic algorithm, can be used for pattern classification mainly through approximating decision boundaries. Coverage also demonstrates the effectiveness of the genetic classifiers vis--vis several widely used classifiers, including neural networks. The book provides a balanced mixture of theories, algorithms, and applications, in particular results from the bioinformatics and Web intelligence domains.